But the biggest issues facing our society are not barriers to talent

The biggest issues are wealth gap, generational worklessness in vulnerable and chaotic families, poverty etc etc.

I'm waving no red flag here necessarily, but I am saying that meritocracy as a principle is about looking after those with ability and not looking after those without it.

This is still a divisive approach.

Posted By: norway on September 9th 2016 at 11:32:07

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Theresa May speech entitled "Britain, The Great Meritocracy". (General Chat) - norway, Sep 9, 11:12:20
- It's all very well saying you'll help the talented working class. (General Chat) - APB, Sep 9, 12:09:57
  - Having taught in a comp with a class of 30 lads (General Chat) - Basingstoke_Canary, Sep 9, 14:28:16
  - My point entirely (General Chat) - norway, Sep 9, 12:20:17
    - It's the lack of responsibility that does it for me. (General Chat) - APB, Sep 9, 12:32:43
  - there should be more of an obligation for the government to help the talentless (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Sep 9, 12:17:26
    - Or just support them. Create jobs for all and stop the sneering at manual labour. (General Chat) - APB, Sep 9, 12:35:15
      - there's a hell of a lot of talent in 'manual labour' y'know (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Sep 9, 12:44:55
- can you link the rest of the board up with a link (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Sep 9, 11:38:56
  - Comments on twitter - no one link (n/m) (General Chat) - norway, Sep 9, 11:56:11
- Yes 100% This! (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Sep 9, 11:21:39
  - But the biggest issues facing our society are not barriers to talent (General Chat) - norway, Sep 9, 11:32:07
    - Or the fact you can fit a slack handful of people in a small room (General Chat) - harry boulders, Sep 9, 11:55:27
    - if it were possible for everyone to start from that same equal footing (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Sep 9, 11:48:08
      - Yes, that's a fair point - but I'm not saying there are *no* barriers to talent (General Chat) - norway, Sep 9, 11:55:22
    - Meritocracy just means that the cream and the shit (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 9, 11:41:18
- So subjective too. (General Chat) - avenging canary, Sep 9, 11:16:57
- She's just trying to out-Thatcher Thatcher (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 9, 11:15:50
  - She's doing a good job today! (n/m) (General Chat) - avenging canary, Sep 9, 11:17:26

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